I've been banging my head against this one and have unfortunately failed. I'm hoping somebody can help me.
I'd like to pass information from a URL to a filename. Basically I'd like to do the following:
There is only one real file on the server:
http://www.domain.com/download/file.zip
If a user enters the following URL into his browser:
http://www.domain.com/download/file_xyx.zip I'd like apache internally serving file.zip but the user downloading the file as file_xyz.zip
xyz is intended to be a variable (of any length) so the rewrite rule should simply accept anything it's place and always internally link to the same file.
I'm thinking this can be achieved with a rewrite rule, am I wrong?
Yes, you just need this rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?download/file_[0-9]+\.zip /download/file.zip [L]
If you are using htaccess files, you can place this rule in an htaccess file in the "download" folder:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /download/
RewriteRule ^file_[0-9]+\.zip file.zip [L]
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I have a website with a products.html file. Now, inside this file, I will have some Javascript code that checks the url to show the correct products/categories. This are some examples of the urls:
example.com/products
example.com/products/
example.com/products/shoes
example.com/products/shoes/
example.com/products/shoes/adidas
example.com/products/shoes/adidas/
example.com/products/shoes/adidas/adidas-predator-20.3
example.com/products/shoes/adidas/adidas-predator-20.3/
So basically, I want that everytime someone goes to the any of the above urls, I want to get the file products.html, I'll manage the rest with JS.
Also I want to be able to test this on my local machine. In this case, my URLs will be:
localhost/websites/myWebsite/products
localhost/websites/myWebsite/products/
localhost/websites/myWebsite/products/shoes
localhost/websites/myWebsite/products/shoes/
localhost/websites/myWebsite/products/shoes/adidas
localhost/websites/myWebsite/products/shoes/adidas/
localhost/websites/myWebsite/products/shoes/adidas/adidas-predator-20.3
localhost/websites/myWebsite/products/shoes/adidas/adidas-predator-20.3/
So I think we would need two htaccess files right?
You may use this single rule that will work on localhost and on production host as well:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (?:^|/)products(?:/|$) products.html [L,NC]
With your shown samples could you please try following, you should place .htaccess file on same level where folder products is present. Also place the products.html in same level too.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(?:products)/?((?:shoes)/?((?:adidas)/?((?:adidas-predator-20\.3)/?)?)?)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ products.html [L]
If these are the only rules you will have then change L to END as an additional note here.
I am having some trouble with my rewrite setup. I have a file on my server that looks like this ABC-7.1.2-3958693-BFHSJF.bin and I want to have a redirect so that /7.1.2 gets you to the file. That part is working fine, however I need to maintain the actual fine name when downloading. Because of the redirect rule, the file is downloading as 7.1.2. I am not sure how to achieve this.
Here is my rewrite rule
RewriteRule ^7\.1\.2$ ABC-7\.1\.2-3958693-BFHSJF\.bin [PT]
Try with:
RewriteRule ^7\.1\.2$ ABC-7.1.2-3958693-BFHSJF.bin [L]
SO I have this in my .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /core/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^page page/%1/? [L]
my url is
http://localhost/core/page.php?page=8
with the rules applied I'm getting..
Not Found
The requested URL /core/page/8/ was not found on this server.
This is running on wampserver 2.2
the file structure looks like
c:/wamp/www/core
the .htaccess is inside the /core/ directory.
What is it that I'm missing.. i've checked my apache.conf file and it looks fine.
I think you got it the wrong way around. When logically thinking of rewriting you don't rewrite original URL to new URL (for example page.php?page=8 to page/8/) you actually rewrite page/8/ to page.php?page=8. You tell the server how it should interpret the unfamiliar URL.
So if I understood correctly what you want to achieve is:
User visits localhost/core/page/8/
User is served (under the hood) localhost/core/page.php?page=8
I believe the following RewriteRule will do the trick (The query string condition is not necessary):
RewriteRule ^page/(\d+)/$ page.php?page=$1 [L]
I want to redirect all incoming requests to a subdirectory, but can't figure out how. I looked here but that did not work for me.
So, if someone visits www.example.com/test, I want it to redirect to: www.example.com/test/subdirectory, but the URL still needs to be www.example.com/test
I also need the parameters to work, for example www.example.com/test/index.php?action=home must redirect to www.example.com/test/subdirectory/index.php?action=home.
I hope someone can help me!
So in fact what you ask for is not a redirect.
A redirect means the web server will send a new url containing the subdirectory, the browser will then request this new url, and show it in the url bar of the browser.
What you want is to tranparently map an directory structure to a real directory structure which differs. This is what Apache can do easily with the Alias instruction. Mod-rewrite could also do that, with RewriteRules not containing the [R] tag, this would imply an internal rewrite, not a redirect HTTP response. A [QSA] tag would also tell mod-rewrite to keep the current query string parameters on the rewritten url. But Mod-rewrite is not always simple to understand, and your problem is simple enough for a basic Alias, which is almost always included in Apache (more often than mod-rewrite).
this should be ok:
Alias /test /test/subdirectory
Try adding the following to the .htaccess file in the root directory of your site.
Query string parameters are passed through by default.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
#if not an existing file or directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# rewrite to subdirectory
RewriteRule ^(.*)(/[^/]+)?$ /$1/subdirectory/$2 [L,QSA]
I have a web application that has one set of files used by 50+ clients and all the configuration for each site comes from a config.php file in their respective directories. This is accomplished with PHP parsing the URL. All this works fine, just having an issue with custom uploaded documents the client can do and are located in
/var/www/sites/user1/cache
There can be multiple subdirs. So when requesting
http://user1.site.com/cache/subdir1/image.jpg
it needs to be read from
/var/www/sites/user1/cache/subdir1/image.jpg
The client is allowed to upload any file type, so I just need the rewrite to take any /cache requests, then grab the subdomain and point to proper directory.
Came up with this, but am still getting an invalid page
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.site\.com$
RewriteRule ^cache/(.*)$ /sites/%1/cache/$1 [L]
Any help is appreciated.
If I read the RewriteRule documentation correctly, the L flag on its own would generate an internal redirection, meaning that the substitution would be interpreted as a local file system path.
Try using the complete path:
RewriteRule ^cache/(.*)$ /var/www/sites/%1/cache/$1 [L]
or do an external redirection (using HTTP return status "302 MOVED TEMPORARILY"), to let the user's browser re-send the request with the new path:
RewriteRule ^cache/(.*)$ /sites/%1/cache/$1 [L,R]
The /var/www/ is where the files are on the filesystem. I was routing based on the document root so I didn't need to put that there. But I realized I was missing the leading forward slash on the /cache/. Though your answer wasn't really what I was looking for, it made me see what I was missing. Thanks.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.site\.com$
RewriteRule ^/cache/(.*)$ /sites/%1/cache/$1 [L]